by Anaïs Lamesa & Katy Whitaker, Claudia Sciuto, Marie-Elise Porqueddu From Quarries to Rock-cut Sites. Echoes of Stone Crafting Sidestone Press, 23/05/2023 https://www.sidestone.com/books/from-quarries-to-rock-cut-sites The archaeological study of quarries focuses mainly on the reconstruction of the extraction process, while rock-hewn spaces have often been approached from the point of view of architectural styles or art-history. Nevertheless, a holistic structural approach to the study of these spaces could allow a better understanding of the agency of those who carved the stone. Stone quarries and rock-cut sites have rarely been included in global studies of historical landscapes and few are the forums dedicated to the theoretical and methodological debate over the importance that these sites have for the understanding of past societies. To fill

by Deniz Pelek  & Diana Aguiar, Yasmin Ahmed, Duygu Avcı, Gabriel Bastos, Bosman Batubara, Cynthia Bejeno, Claudia I. Camacho-Benavides, Komal Chauhan, Sergio Coronado, Somashree Das, Mercedes Ejarque, Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy, Diana Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong, Hao Phuong Phan, Rahma Hassan, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Huiying Ng, Sardar Babur Hussain, Sinem Kavak, Thiruni Kelegama, Amit John Kurien, Daren Shi-chi Leung, Tania Martínez-Cruz, Boaventura Monjane, George Tonderai Mudimu, Tsilavo Ralandison, Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti, Dzifa Torvikey & Diana María Valencia-Duarte  Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50:2, 758-786  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2023.2176759 This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced by critical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We

by Léa Delmaire Book review « Christian Bonah, Guillaume Linte and Alexandre Wenger, Maladies infectieuses sans fin. Le cas de la syphilis pour penser la mobilisation-démobilisation prophylactique (XXe–XXIe siècle) » In: European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, Brill Date: 27 April 2023 https://brill.com/view/journals/ehmh/aop/article-10.1163-26667711-20230001/article-10.1163-26667711-20230001.xml?ebody=previewpdf-63165 While the advent of biomedicine saw new hope for the eradication of infectious diseases, only in the case of smallpox was this hope fulfilled. Why do some of the diseases for which humanity has found a cure continue to exist and circulate, and even to circulate widely? This book addresses this question through the case study of syphilis and an interdisciplinary perspective on the last century. It explores the reconfigurations of the fight against syphilis, from